Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique

From	jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique
Date	2017-07-04 19:54 +0000
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Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 18:46:59 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> 
>>Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Jimp, Jimp, Jimp....
>>> 
>>> Remember the long, looong argument we had about ten years back in which
>>> you contended there would never, ever be any self-driving cars?
>>
>>I never said that.
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>> 3D printers can print only one material at a time *from a given print
>>> head*.  There are plenty of them available now, this very minute, which
>>> print more than one material.
>>
>>Not highly dissimilar materials like metal conductors and electrical
>>insulators though likely eventually.
>>
>><snip remaining arm waving>
> 
> Sure you did.  In this very newsgroup.
> 
> The highlight of the discussion, as I recall, was you asserting that it
> would never work because self-driving cars would never be able to things
> like detect curbs buried entirely beneath snow, tasks which human
> drivers also can't accomplish.

Nope.

What I said was more along the lines of self-driving cars would eventually
fail due to litigation.

> As for the arm-waving, it's all a description of technology which is
> available, off the shelf, today.  Like those cars now are.

Nope.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-02 11:38 -0700
  Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-02 12:36 -0700
    Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-02 13:46 -0700
      Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-03 09:37 -0700
        Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Oveho Anými Trofyzikovu <zfeuur@ceuuwi.ku> - 2017-07-03 17:43 +0000
          Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Sегg io <innvalid@invalid.com> - 2017-07-03 13:03 -0500
            Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-07-04 00:37 +0200
              Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-04 00:40 +0000
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2017-07-04 13:29 -0500
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-04 18:46 +0000
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2017-07-04 14:42 -0500
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-04 19:54 +0000
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Sегg io <innvalid@invalid.com> - 2017-07-04 19:28 -0500
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-07-04 17:12 -0400
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-04 21:22 +0000
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-04 15:26 -0700
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-07-04 20:21 -0400
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Sегg io <innvalid@invalid.com> - 2017-07-04 19:33 -0500
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-05 00:45 +0000
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-07-04 21:39 -0400
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-05 04:46 +0000
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-07-05 19:40 -0400
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-06 01:20 +0000
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-07-05 21:46 -0400
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-06 05:08 +0000
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-07-06 16:44 -0400
                Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2017-07-05 18:46 -0700
              Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Sегg io <innvalid@invalid.com> - 2017-07-03 23:32 -0500
              Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-03 23:25 -0700
              Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique Upech Bezradne <adeeia@bbzzeop.ic> - 2017-07-07 10:46 +0000
  Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-07-06 15:44 -0700
    Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-07-06 16:39 -0700
    Re: NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-06 23:19 -0700

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